Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phil Marcus wrote: "I wonder what Elliot Erwitt did when he was shooting? Seems like he made a living as a commercial photographer and picked up a large library of personal pictures in the cracks." ________________________________________________________ That's pretty much what he did. He always scheduled time around his assignments to do his own photography. In the book "Elliot Erwitt: The Private Experience," published around 1974 as part of the Masters of Contemporary Photography series, his working outfit is pictured: a Fiberbilt padded case with two or three Canon F-1 bodies and every FD lens from 17mm to 300mm. Another photo in the book shows him working with a 4x5, probably a Linhof. However, his preferred commercial working system seems to have been 35mm. For his personal pictures, he appears to have used a III-series Leica until well into the M era, and stated that he liked the collapsible lenses because they were pocketable. His work has influenced me deeply and I personally consider him one of the greatest photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Dave Jenkins - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html